The Pirate Bay is one of the largest and most popular torrent search engines.

It's still having persistent legal problems. The tracker went down in November 2012, but the site still serves torrents and magnet links. If a torrent is lost, it becomes impossible to connect to other computers distributing the shared files. Considering that there are links to TPB all over this wiki, this site is pretty dang important.

On December 2014, the website went offline due to an alleged raid[1]. A few weeks later, the site was updated with a banner page and a mysterious key string[2] revealed to be a cryptographic puzzle with the solution "I'll be back" [3][4]. The website returned back online on February 1, 2015[5].